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Moon: Architectural GuideIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first man on the moon, this book for the first time ever looks at the artifacts left behind on the moon from the perspective of architecture. The book looks at every single mission - manned and...
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What Great Paintings Say. Faces of PowerByzantine empresses, French revolutionaries, and Spanish generals: history's most impressive figures stare boldly out of the canvases in this collection of formidable paintings. Each individual represented in these images radiates with strength and splendor; be they an aristocratic widow in mourning, a murdered politician,...
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Walt Disney's DisneylandPendant des dizaines d'années, Walt Disney a rêvé d'ouvrir le lieu de divertissement ultime, et ce n'est qu'au début des années 1950 qu'il chargea une équipe triée sur le volet de transformer sa désir en réalité. Ensemble, artistes, architectes et ingénieurs transformèrent un terrain...
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Mid-Century AdsGleaned from thousands of images, this book offers the best of American print advertising in the age of the "Big Idea." From the height of American consumerism, bold and colorful campaigns paint a fascinating portrait of the 1950s and '60s, as concerns about the...
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Adolf LoosAdolf Loos (1870-1933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the country's architectural landscape. An early, impassioned advocate of modernism, he all-out rejected the grand Secessionist aesthetic prevalent at the time, as well as any hallmarks...
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Katalog Der Mittelalterlichen Handschriften in Der Zentral- Und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern115 mittelalterliche Handschriften werden in diesem Katalog prasentiert. Sie stammen aus Luzerner Kloster- und Privatbibliotheken, die uber Jahrhunderte gewachsen sind, und reichen von Fragmenten aus dem 8. Jahrhundert bis zu Diebold Schillings 1513 fertiggestellter Schweizer Chronik. Enthalten sind theologische, liturgische, kirchenrechtliche und -geschichtliche, historische,...
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BotticelliNow available in a new edition, this celebration of the life and art of the Renaissance genius presents Sandro Botticelli's complete paintings and offers a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date study of his work. Botticelli is one of the most admired artists of the Renaissance...
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Prefabricated Systems: Principles of ConstructionAuthor: Ulrich Knaack, Sharon Chung-Klatte, Reinhard HasselbachPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 11/15/2010Pages: 133Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 10.60h x 8.20w x 0.50dISBN: 9783764387471About the AuthorSharon Chung-Klatte, Akademie van Bouwkunst Maastricht; Reinhard Hasselbach, Architekt in Berlin; Ulrich Knaack, TU Delft.
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Basics StadtanalyseAuthor: Gerrit SchwalbachPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 05/06/2019Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.60h x 6.10w x 0.30dISBN: 9783035620139Language: German
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River.Space.Design: Planning Strategies, Methods and Projects for Urban Rivers. Second and Enlarged EditionAuthor: Martin Prominski, Antje Stokman, Daniel StimbergPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 06/22/2017Pages: 328Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.65lbsSize: 11.20h x 8.80w x 1.20dISBN: 9783035611861About the Author Prof. Dr. Martin Prominski, Leibniz Universität Hannover Prof. Antje Stokman, HCU Hamburg et. al.
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Herzog & de Meuron 2005-2007Author: Gerhard MackPublisher: BirkhauserPublished: 11/23/2017Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.20lbsSize: 13.20h x 9.50w x 1.20dISBN: 9783035610048About the AuthorGerhard Mack is editor for art, architecture, and design for Neue Zürcher Zeitung and NZZ am Sonntag
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Jean ProuvéA new and expanded slipcased edition of the 2007 monograph, with a particular focus on Prouvé's furniture designsThis exquisitely produced and comprehensive slipcased publication, edited by Paris' Galerie Patrick Seguin, is a new and enlarged edition of the original two-volume Jean Prouvé monograph that...
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Bernard Tschumi: Architecture: Concept & NotationInitially known as a theorist exploring the spatial-political implications of the May 1968 uprisings, Bernard Tschumi emerged as an architect of international repute in the 1980s with his Parc de la Villette, a 125-acre cultural park located in northeastern Paris. His buildings and design...
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Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Us Carrier Operations Off Vietnam 1964 - 1975This book is a comprehensive guide to US Aircraft carriers operations off Vietnam, between 1964 and 1975. After guiding andd describing the operations, the author focuses on the Vietnam war combat cruises of USS Coral Sea, as she spent more time on the line...
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My Sweet Audrina / Whitefern BindupDiscover two of V.C. Andrews's most haunting and enthralling novels with this gorgeous volume containing both My Sweet Audrina and Whitefern as they follow Audrina struggling with her family's dark secrets. In My Sweet Audrina, Audrina Adare only desires to be as good as...
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The Voynich Manuscript: The History of the Mysterious Renaissance Codex that Has Never Been Deciphered*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts describing the manuscript and attempts to decipher it *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve." - Edgar Allan Poe,...
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Layered Landscapes Lofoten: Understanding of Complexity, Otherness and ChangeThis book discusses approaches towards landscapes under pressure and transformation, and the importance of unprejudiced and experimental investigations to reveal its natural and cultural complexity. Layered Landscapes Lofoten, Understanding of Complexity, Otherness and Change aims to challenge internalized concepts about how landscapes are considered...
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Studies of DeathDuring his lifetime the eccentric Count Eric Stenbock published a single collection of short stories, Studies of Death. These seven tales, at once feverish, morbid, and touching, are a key work of English decadence and the Yellow Nineties. This disquieting collection, long out of...
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Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia IAlbrecht D rer's master engraving, Melencolia I, has stood for centuries as a pictorial summa of knowledge about melancholia and an allegory of the limits of earthbound arts and sciences. Zealously interpreted since the nineteenth century, the work also presides over the origins of...
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneHailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the...
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